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US Government planning to spend 10% of its IT budget on cyber-security by 2009.

2008-02-25 13:59:58 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...government has increased its cyber-security budget by a whopping 73% since 2004. The media has picked up on things such as DOT (Department of Transportation) more than doubling its budget while DHS (Department of Homeland Security) had less than a 5% increase, they dont have their priorities right or that we should fund federal agencies based...
 
Tags: cyber-security, budget, cyber-security budget, security, government, measure security, security budgets, mature security postures, government infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Transparency in Government: Just Give us the Data!

2008-06-02 20:34:54 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...government releasing the raw data . It makes the security geek in me cringe because well, most of the data that the government has is PII, and I know that the typical government reaction is to say not only no, but h*ll no!! I mean, after all, most of our goal in the Government is to keep the data from reaching the citizens and...
 
Tags: data, government, raw data, government data, typical government reaction, data sets, transparent government, data presentation, government loses control
 
 
 
 
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Use Cases for Identity Management in E-Government

2008-05-22 06:22:47 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...government provides a special and complex use case for identity management systems, first because the needs of some parts of the government (such as law enforcement and national security) are often at odds with the service-oriented aspects of government, and second because of the unique role government plays in the life of the citizen. The...
 
Tags: e-government, government, identity management systems, zealand implementation differs, zealand, history strongly affect, identity management system, law enforcement, authors discuss
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...government's computer systems against attacks by foreign adversaries and other intruders. It will cost billions of dollars, which the White House is expected to request in its fiscal 2009 budget Under the initiative, the NSA, CIA and the FBI's Cyber Division will investigate intrusions by monitoring Internet activity and, in some cases,...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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Web 2.0 Adoption by the Federal Government Shouldnt be a Surprise

2008-06-24 11:33:34 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...government . With half my mouth numb from being shot up with anesthetics, I decided this was the perfect time to do a blog post on this Back at the FOSE show in April , we conducted a survey and one of the questions asked was about Web 2.0 usage. Honestly, we expected low adoption of these kinds of collaborative and often very public...
 
Tags: government, federal government, adoption, government cio summit, web, tools, public communications tools, federal, government agency management
 
 
 
 
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Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...governments need to issue debt to support the financial markets, jump start the economy, and develop infrastructure, etc. Sovereigns with large outstanding debt are seen to be more credit risky and more more susceptible to something going wrong. Thus, the IMF issued guidelines on Public Debt Management (PDM In a nutshell PDM takes...
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
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Developing FIPS 140-validated Solutions for the Federal Government Using RSA BSAFE Software

2008-03-03 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
...Government Reform recently released the 2005 edition of its Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report card. Unfortunately, the news was not good. The 25 major government agencies reported 15% of the IT systems remained uncertified/unaccredited while 6 agencies lacked effective corrective action plans, illustrating little...
 
Tags: major government agencies, agencies, diplomatic agencies, information, information security, government agencies, sensitive information, security, international security
 
 
 
 
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The Federal government is a leader in NAC adoption

2008-04-09 10:53:43 by HASH0x8745d18 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...governments NAC adoption evolution based upon just speaking to Greg Stock over at Mirage Networks and some of the folks at Enterasys. Neither company has any real NAC presence in the federal government. So of course the perspective would be that the federal government has not been an early adopter of NAC. You know what they say, when you are...
 
Tags: nac, nac adoption, adoption, nac deployments, real nac presence, federal government, nac standards, federal space, federal space screams
 
 
 
 
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The problem with Government contracting

2008-04-21 12:57:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...government contracting'. When people in the Washington D.C. metro area find out that I am the president of a private security firm, they immediately think "government". While there are small (and not so small) fortunes to be made in that arena, it is also rife with problems The Washington Post on Friday ran a story about such a problem...
 
Tags: government, officers, contract, million dollar contract, air force officers, brassed-up bullies, barely, washington post, selection team